the reason he didn't want any of that the main reason is because he wanted to make sure there was some benefit pragmatic benefit to the choice he made to unravel his life and that benefit would be that the government wouldn't be able to distract everyone's attention from these revelations by saying let's focus on how edward snowden is an irresponsible traitor. they wouldn't be able to say look we found page 5862 of the documents that it then released of this innocent person who has jeopardized and how we access on that one small case as a means of demonizing the disclosures. he was acutely aware of the need to have a public debate on his side. that was important to him. he wanted the public to be focused on the substance of the revelations and not on the ancillary tax ticks if we did any other sort of course. that meant that he wanted us to go one by one by one in each and every document each and every story and published it journalistically meaning report it described to the public what it out let it linger so people had time and space to react so that it can grow and once we were rea